Recycling leftovers in Japan

Nice to see people are finding uses for the old food. It’s common in North America for bakeries to sell off there old stuff, and other leftover grain they can’t use themselves to various places handling livestock that can use the old food as feed. I’m glad the idea is spreading.

They already do this in Korea. When you through your garbage away, there are bins for “raw waste”, so in the evening you see people throwing all of their food garbage away there. They feed the waste to pigs. And then, obviously, you eat the pigs when they’re fattened up.

While I find it an interesting idea, I’m not so fond of having to dump my raw garbage in the bins, because it smells beyond description.

Alex, if you read the original article, note that they are not allowed to use regular household food garbage as feed here in Japan, due to strict rules to avoid mad cow disease.

Yes, pigs do eat almost anything. A good reason (there are others) to avoid pork, or start asking the company what kind of feed they use. Some companies have very good information on their websites.